Robby Hoffman: Hot Takes & Falling in Love

TL;DR

Comedian Robby Hoffman shares hot takes on men, relationships, and career pivots while recounting her unconventional path from accounting to stand-up comedy.

Key Points

• 1.Robby Hoffman is Emmy-nominated and self-raised. She credits her pride in her own accomplishments to growing up largely without parental involvement, saying she looks at herself and thinks 'well done.'
• 2.She pivoted from accounting to comedy after a strict 6-month trial. At 22, she was earning $32,500 CAD annually at KPMG before giving herself six months of open mics and festival submissions to prove she had comedic talent.
• 3.She impersonated a courier to get her comedy script in front of network executives. Early in her career, she posed as a delivery person to hand-deliver her script directly to people who otherwise wouldn't have read it.
• 4.Her audience comes to her shows 'like church' — no heckling ever occurs. She attributes this to a combination of her audience's devotion and the implicit understanding that challenging her would not end well.
• 5.Her hot take on men: 95% great, 5% jail. She argues every major global problem — war, economic inequality, politics — stems from male decision-making, saying women would have 'set up every system very differently.'
• 6.She believes if you think a man is gay, he definitively is. Her theory holds that everyone who reads as gay is gay, plus there are millions more undetectable gay people on top of that.
• 7.Her relationship ratio theory requires one hot person and one smart person. Two hot people (e.g., JLo and Ben Affleck) is 'a disaster,' while she says she and Gabby balance 90/10 on hotness and 50/50 on intelligence.
• 8.Gabby, her wife, is a former ICU nurse who doubles as Robby's live-in medical advisor. Robby immediately leaned on Gabby's medical expertise from their first sleepover, when Gabby made her oats to soothe a stomachache.
• 9.She ran a live advice call-in show called the Robbie Hoffman Consulting Group during COVID. She jokingly justified her qualifications with her McGill University accounting degree, and callers had her review their resumes.
• 10.As a teenager, she earned her place in friend groups by getting free drinks and access. Without money or a car, she leveraged her looks to secure bottle service at clubs for her friend group, never paying or 'putting out.'
• 11.She and Gabby eloped and kept their wedding small deliberately. Since both receive constant public attention and praise, they chose a minimal ceremony so family members with quieter lives could have the spotlight at their own events.